ZDNet's Ed Bott has an example of something I've never seen before: A rogue antimalware attack targeting Google Chrome users. Such attacks are neither difficult nor surprising, and this does reinforce the great truth that the "flying under the radar" approach to security is more about crossing your fingers than actually protecting yourself.

The attack begins with poisoned search results on both Google and Bing, although this particular poisoning seems to have been cleared out from both engines. It goes on to a fairly standard rogue antimalware attack, but with a twist: It's customized to look like Google Chrome warnings. Ed has a photo gallery with screen shots.

Does this mean that Chrome is no longer safe? Of course not; Chrome is a particularly secure browser (as is, for that matter, IE9). But attacks like this one are the exception, so much so that each one is newsworthy. Attacks that just look like Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 are commonplace. And a Windows Chrome user might fall for those attacks as well.

At the level of mass attacks we are past the point where current products are threatened through weaknesses in them. The weakness is the one pressing keys on the keyboard.